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  • NoisePop: SPEEDER KILLS & ALL THIS WAY

    WORLD PREMIERE! On the run from a $45,000 debt, Texas-born, San Francisco-based video artist Amalia has returned home to San Antonio. When selling folk art door-to-door doesn’t work out, she turns her artistic sights on the Chicano punk band rehearsing across the street. She wants to make a documentary about them; they just want a music video. What follows is a delectable blend of indie rock, Mexican American culture, kidnapping plots and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Dir. Jim Mendiola, USA 2003, 83 min.

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    ALL THIS WAY
    Touring through the Southwest in a beat-up van, Rose is forced to make some difficult decisions about her band, her music and her future. Although it’s set in Arizona, much of this locally produced short was shot at the Make Out Room. Dir. Alexandra Lacey, USA 2002, 23 min.

  • “Hidden Wars of Desert Storm”

    On August 2nd, 1990, Saddam Hussein launched his troops against Kuwait, triggering the first major international crisis of the post-Soviet Union era. But was this invasion a surprise in the first place? Were all diplomatic means really utilized to try to resolve the issue peacefully? Was there any threat from the part of Iraq against Saudi Arabia or against any of the other Gulf states? What is true behind this mysterious “Gulf War Syndrome” that goes on affecting hundreds of thousands of Gulf War veterans?

     

    A two-year investigation, “Hidden Wars of Desert Storm” answers these and several other questions that have never been confronted by the main-stream media. The film is based on documents never seen before on television and backed by interviews of such prominent personalities as Desert Storm Commander, General Norman Schwarzkopf, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, former UN Iraq Program Director Denis Halliday, former UNSCOM team-leader Scott Ritter and many others. A large selection of archival footage, moving images recently brought back from Iraq, an original soundtrack scored by acclaimed composer Fritz Heede and the narration by two-time British Academy Award-winner, actor John Hurt, all contribute to making “Hidden Wars of Desert Storm” a fast-paced, informative documentary while resolutely accessible to a general audience.

     

     

  • Girls On Film

    Girls On Film is back with ALL ABOUT DESIRE, the next installment in its ongoing quarterly series of provocative film and video shorts by and about women of color.  The program features a collection of experimental and narrative works that explore the nature of desire, its implications for the personal and political, and its use as a vehicle in search of self. Filmmakers will be in attendance to discuss their work. For more information about the films or future screenings in the series, please contact Jennifer at girlsonfilmseries@hotmail.com